NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- They were used to running barefoot on baking ground. They were raw, untrained. All eager. Each day, the five runners who grew up in the Kakuma refugee camp pounded the dusty tracks past thousands of makeshift tents to pass the time. Until there was a lifeline. Workers from the foundation of former marathon world-record holder Tegla Loroupe arrived to hold athletic trials, and the five excelled. For this group of runners, many with no family and all with little schooling, running could offer food, a solid house. Proper shoes. "When I started the project, I said 'What can I do with these people?'" coach Volker Wagner said. What he didn't have to...
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